But we didn’t have the votes of two-thirds of the senators necessary to ratify the treaty, and Trent Lott tried to get me to promise not to raise it for the rest of my term. Many of the pundits were predicting disaster for the Democrats. ion he’d had with an eighty-five-year-old man who told him he had lived through two world wars, the D We were far more likely to face attacks from terrorists having smaller nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
He was a soft-spoken, modest man whose demeanor disguised a surprising toughness. My family said good-bye to the new First Family and drove to Andrews Air Force Base for our last flight on the presidential plane that was no longer Air Force One for me. Almost exactly six months later, on July 19, I went to the National Defense University at Fort McNair to announce it to the officers in attendance. I might have been President, but Mother would still have given me a whipping if I’d kept a lot of people waiting an hour while I got a haircut, much less a $200 one.
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